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The Informer is a 1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty.
Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Seán Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or Ó Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, [8] (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). [9]
John Ford with portrait and Academy Award, circa 1946. John Ford (1894–1973) was an American film director whose career spanned from 1913 to 1971. [1] During this time he directed more than 130 films; however, nearly all of his silent films are lost.
The mere opening salvo of “The Informer” contains nearly enough plot to keep many a lesser shoot-'em-up exercise occupied for an hour or two: Just 10 minutes into Andrea Di Stefano's ...
The picture was based on the 1925 novel The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty. In the film, a man betrays his best friend, a member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation. [1] The later better-known adaptation The Informer (1935) was directed by John Ford.
He was a well-known member of John Ford’s Stock Company, appearing in 12 of the director’s films, seven of which co-starred John Wayne. For his performance as a treacherous Irish Republican in the 1935 film The Informer , he won the Academy Award for Best Actor , and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Quiet Man ...
Most famously, the novel was made into a film of the same name by John Ford in 1935 starring Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan. The film won four Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Actor for McLaglen, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Dudley Nichols and director Ford’s first of a record four wins for the Oscar for Best Directing.
The Informer, an American drama by John Ford, also based on the Liam O'Flaherty novel The Informers (1963 film) , a British crime film by Ken Annakin, released in the U.S. as Underworld Informers The Informer (TV series) , a British series broadcast in 1966 and 1967 featuring Ian Hendry